Screen-time influences children's mental imagery performance.

Autor: Suggate SP; Department of Educational Sciences, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany., Martzog P; Department of Educational Sciences, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Developmental science [Dev Sci] 2020 Nov; Vol. 23 (6), pp. e12978. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 May 17.
DOI: 10.1111/desc.12978
Abstrakt: Mental imagery is a foundational human faculty that depends on active image construction and sensorimotor experiences. However, children now spend a significant proportion of their day engaged with screen-media, which (a) provide them with ready-made mental images, and (b) constitute a sensory narrowing whereby input is typically focused on the visual and auditory modalities. Accordingly, we test the idea that screen-time influences the development of children's mental imagery with a focus on mental image generation and inspection from the visual and haptic domains. In a longitudinal cross-lagged panel design, children (n = 266) aged between 3 and 9 years were tested at two points in time, 10 months apart. Measures of screen-time and mental imagery were employed, alongside a host of control variables including working memory, vocabulary, demographics, device ownership, and age of exposure to screen-media. Findings indicate a statistically significant path from screen-time at time 1 to mental imagery at time 2, above and beyond the influence of the control variables. These unique findings are discussed in terms of the influence of screen-time on mental imagery.
(© 2020 The Authors. Developmental Science published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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